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‘Aramis! Who is he?’
‘Come, come, you won’t tell me you don’t know Ara-
mis?’
‘This is the first time I ever heard his name pro-
nounced.’
‘It is the first time, then, that you ever went to that
house?’
‘Undoubtedly.’
‘And you did not know that it was inhabited by a young
man?’
‘No.’
‘By a Musketeer?’
‘No, indeed!’
‘It was not he, then, you came to seek?’
‘Not the least in the world. Besides, you must have seen
that the person to whom I spoke was a woman.’
‘That is true; but this woman is a friend of Aramis—‘
‘I know nothing of that.’
‘—since she lodges with him.’
‘That does not concern me.’
‘But who is she?’
‘Oh, that is not my secret.’
‘My dear Madame Bonacieux, you are charming; but at
the same time you are one of the most mysterious women.’
‘Do I lose by that?’
‘No; you are, on the contrary, adorable.’
‘Give me your arm, then.’
‘Most willingly. And now?’
‘Now escort me.’

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